Chapter 2 Chapter 1

Let's say that Li Si bid farewell to Lu Buwei, returned home with a heavy heart, and bumped into a person head-on, and regarded him as Meng Ao's eldest grandson, Mengtian.Meng Tian was eighteen years old at the time. He was a prison officer and studied literature.When Li Si presided over the trial of Lao Ai's treason case, Meng Tian had worked under Li Si and admired Li Si very much.Li Si also liked this young man very much, and he did not hesitate to teach him. Li Si asked Meng Tian, ​​"Why are you here?" Meng Tian said: "Mr. Hui, there is a new prisoner in the prison who claims to be Mr.'s old friend, and wants to meet him."

Li Si was very surprised, he really couldn't think of anyone around him who committed crimes and went to jail recently.Li Sidao: "Do you know that person's name?" Meng Tian said: "That man's surname is Zheng Mingguo." Li Si turned pale with shock, and asked anxiously, "Guo Zheng?" The camera cuts to a prison on the outskirts of Xianyang, daytime, interior.Although it was daytime, due to the unique darkness of the prison, it was necessary to subtly supplement artificial lighting during the actual shooting.But seeing Li Si walking in a hurry, he looked anxious.Meng Tian was almost trotting behind, so he could barely keep up with Li Si's pace.

On the way to the prison, Meng Tian had roughly narrated Zheng Guo's case to Li Si: Ten years ago, water conservancy engineer Zheng Guo came to Qin from South Korea with his genius idea.He suggested to Lu Buwei, who was in power at the time, to build a canal, dig Jingshui, near Beishan, pass through Jingyang, Sanyuan, Gaoling, Lintong, Fuping, Pucheng, and inject Luoshui in the east, with a total length of more than 300 miles to irrigate farmland. Solve the water shortage problem that has restricted the agricultural development in Guanzhong area for hundreds of years.The project proposed by Zheng Guo is several times bigger and more difficult than Li Bing’s Dujiangyan. To be further verified.As soon as Zheng Guo's proposal was announced, it caused a lot of opposition within Qin.With his foresight and courage, Lu Buwei withstood the pressure, approved the project, and handed it over to Zheng Guo to preside over it.Not long ago, Zheng Guo's identity as a spy was exposed.It turned out that the plan to build the aqueduct was a conspiracy of South Korea. South Korea suffered from Qin's aggression, so it sent Zheng Guo into Qin, hoping to build the aqueduct to exhaust Qin's national power and make it temporarily unable to attack South Korea.

Li Si's face was stern. Once he was convicted of being a spy, Zheng Guo would undoubtedly die.At that time, it was different from today. Although Zheng Guo was a hydraulic engineer and spy in South Korea, he did not have the right of diplomatic immunity to enjoy. A jailer blocked Li Si from entering.Meng Tian reprimanded: "No sign! Don't you see that it is Mr. Keqing?" The jailer naturally knew Li Si, but Zheng Guo was a special prisoner, and he had to be ordered by Ting Wei to not visit the prison.Li Si patted the jailer on the shoulder, and said: "Tingwei will pursue it, and I, Li Si, will take care of it for you." The jailer then let him go.

Zheng Guo is sleeping in the corner of the cell.Li Si almost didn't recognize Zheng Guolai. He saw that Zheng Guo had aged a lot, his face was dark and purple, his skin was rough and cracked, wrinkled, his clothes were torn, and his body was bruised. He had obviously suffered countless tortures in prison.Zheng Guo didn't sleep deeply, and woke up when he heard footsteps. Seeing that it was Li Si, he wanted to struggle to get up.Li Si waved his hand to signal him not to move, and ordered the jailer to unshackle Zheng Guo.The jailer looked troubled.Meng Tian shouted in a low voice, "Hurry up." Don't look at Meng Tian who has been a prison officer for a short time, but the jailer knows that he is the grandson of the former general Meng Ao, this little brother is even more unofficial than Li Si.The jailer didn't dare to disobey, so he went to release the shackles for Zheng Guo. Li Si then ordered the jailer to fetch some wine.

The jailer brought the wine, but Li Si ordered him to avoid it.Meng Tian also resigned. Li Si poured wine for Zheng Guo, and said: "Li Si is late, and I have made Brother Zheng suffer. Brother Zheng, please be at ease, everything is up to me." Zheng Guo raised his glass tremblingly, drank the wine in one gulp, his complexion turned slightly rosy.Li Si said again: "I haven't seen you for ten years, Brother Zheng has aged a lot. It must have been a lot of hard work to open the canal." Zheng Guo laughed mockingly.In our line of work, we are exposed to wind and sun all day long, and there is no big treasure to take care of us, so we have to feel sorry for our face.

Li Si invites another drink.Zheng Guodao: "Mr. Guo is not a thing in the pool. After a few years, he has become a guest of the Qin State. Unexpectedly, Mr. Zheng still remembers Zheng. He came to visit in vain, which made Zheng very grateful. Zheng committed a capital crime. Today I can see Mr. , I have fulfilled my wish. Please come back early, sir, so as not to get involved and delay your future." Li Si said: "Brother Zheng, who do you think Li Si is? If Brother Zheng hadn't recommended him in the past, and he had been generously gifted with money, Li Si would have starved to death in Xianyang. How could he be able to do so today! Now that Brother Zheng is in trouble, how can Li Si ignore it? Li Si Zong abandons Keqing and does not want to be a guest, he does not want to sacrifice his life, as long as he can save Brother Zheng from difficulties, he is willing."

Zheng Guochang sighed: "Mr. Gao Yi, Mr. Han Fei is right." Li Si's blood pressure rose sharply, and he said, "Han Fei? Brother Zheng knows Han Fei?"